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Todos Cambiamos (“Everyone Changes”) is a bold film that breaks taboos about gender identity and acceptance in Panama’s macho culture. The film was going to be screened for the first time in the Netherlands at the Pink Film Days, and its director Arturo Montenegro was to receive the Hivos Free to be Me Award. Unfortunately, […]

Contestation against the adoption of the open contracting approach in government have revolved around national security concerns in the procurement of  military equipment citing ‘the contravention of confidentiality clauses and privacy rights’. In various jurisdictions these arguments for blanket non- disclosure have been discredited.

Civil society organizations have intensified calls on African governments to ratify the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 190 on Violence and Harassment in the world of work. The CSOs want the member states to ratify the Convention to achieve the decent work agenda.

Change sometimes is in the hardware – it’s in the structures, frameworks and institutions.  And we tend to focus largely on these shifts, so that culture shifts in good governance can go unrecognized, unnoticed.

High-scoring 100&Change applications featured in Bold Solutions Network San Francisco, CA February 19 2020 — The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today unveiled that “25×25: End Energy Poverty Faster,” submitted by the 25×25 Electricity Access Acceleration Collaborative, was one of the highest-scoring proposals, designated as the Top 100, in its 100&Change competition for […]

Protecting ancestral land through mining data March 16, 2020 By Adelle Chua At a venue of a workshop on mining royalties, organized by Hivos’ Open Up Contracting partner Bantay Kita, male participants from an indigenous community in Narra municipality, Palawan (Philippines), quickly fill up the meeting room. Meanwhile, a handful of women stand on the […]

Decent work is widely considered as an important strategy to fight poverty and foster development. In fact, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has sustained a decent work agenda campaign over the years to offer the basis for a more, just and meaningful improvement on workers welfare. However, this campaign has largely remained superficial and has not brought any significant change to the working poor.

As Kenya prepares to host the 6th International Open Data Conference later this year Jackline Kagume who heads the programme on Constitution, Law and the Economy (CLE) at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) was keen to share with Hivos East Africa’s Sarah Nyakio  insights regarding the current state of public procurement in Kenya.